Samsung Display thinks that VR and AR could be the technology needed to push mobile OLED panels.

Park Won-sang, Samsung Display’s principal engineer, told the assorted throngs at the International Meeting on Information Display in Seoul that the company expects the mobile OLED market to grow as virtual reality and augmented reality applications become more popular.

Park is working on ways to increase energy efficiency for high power consumption of VR panels. Apparently this is putting a real spanner in the works of the technology for mobile.

Samsung Display is also attaching importance to augmented reality as it allows for innovative applications that combine the digital and real world.

The issue with this technology is that it seems to cause eye problems including eye strain and dry eyes as they must focus on panels from a short distance in a dark environment. That’s one of the augmented reality pain points that Samsung is working to address, he said.

Samsung Display is planning to crank up production of AMOLED display panels for the company’s flagship smartphones that are due to be unveiled on February 21.

Word on the street is that Samsung is asking around to get more facilities that can provide a monthly production capacity of 9 million panels for the Galaxy S7 edge. Apparently it is worried that will not have a smooth supply. Samsung has already switched on its A2 and Tangjeong A3 flexible OLED lines at the Asan facility in the South Chungcheong province for the Galaxy S7 edge.

However what is surprising is that it may not be enough. The A2 5.5-generation line can produce more than 24,000 pieces of mother glass per month while Samsung's A3 6-generation line can manage 15,000 pieces. One piece of 6-generation mother glass can yield 300 5-inch display panels for smartphones and one piece of the 5.5-generation can yield 220 panels. Both production lines combined can produce up to 9 million flexible OLED panels per month when they are at maximum yield rates.

Samsung was caught on the hop last year when the slightly more expensive Galaxy S6 edge was actually preferred by customers and tfor several months it was in short supply. But wanting more panels is rather optimistic..

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn that Apple's coming 12.9-inch iPad will feature displays from Sharp.

Sharp will provide Open Cell LCD displays which is good news for the Japanese outfit which has not been having a good time of it lately.

Sharp is about $5.9 billion in debt to the banks and chronically short of cash. It recently pulled out of America. Some analysts have even said that it might not be around in a few years' time.

Meanwhile Apple's long term chum Foxconn will be responsible for touch modules, lamination and LCM assembly.

The device will enter production by the end of the third quarter and go into mass production in the fourth.Samsung Display and TPK will be secondary suppliers, with TPK responsible for touch modules and Samsung for displays as well as LCD assembly.

Analysts estimate that iPad Pro shipments will reach between 4-5 million in 2015 due to the device's fourth-quarter release. We think it will be much lower, despite the bigger screen.

A subsidiary of Samsung Electronics has written a cheque for $3 billion to boost display module production capacity in Vietnam.

The cunning plan is to lower production costs amid intensifying price competition in the smartphone market.

If Samsung can get its display unit costs down, it might steal a march on its rivals by offering a better quality at a lower price. At the moment, everyone and his dog can do low quality and cheap. Samsung's rival Apple does medium quality and expensive.

The investment by Samsung Display comes on top of a $1 billion it has earmarked for a new OLED display module assembly plant in Bac Ninh province, which began production in the first quarter.

The fresh $3 billion in spending will be spread out over several years until 2020.

Samsung Display's annual capital spending has averaged $3.4 billion in the past three years.

Samsung Electronics, the world's top smartphone maker, in November applied for approval to invest $3 billion in building a second smartphone factory in northern Vietnam.

Samsung just released its financial performance for the first quarter of the year and while it beat the rather poor expectations of the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street there is not too much to be happy about.

Samsung's smartphone business, believed to be the culprit for Samsung's decline, still looks depressing however its chips and LCD displays seem to have pulled its nadgers out of the fire.

The outfit's operating income fell 31 percent, it did end up with $5.4 billion in the quarter that ended in March. Wall Street had predicted it would fall further to $5.04 billion profit.

Sales of components that shored up the company's bottom line. Its chips did particularly well, with earnings of $2.5 billion based on sales of $10.2 billion.

Things are looking even brighter in that department if rumors that Samsung will be supplying Apple's next iPhone chip pan out.

Its display unit, which, among other things, produces LCD displays, is also doing well with an operating profit of $413 million. This has been built on the growing demand for thinner LCD displays, even among mid to low tier devices, helped boost sales in this area of Samsung's business.

Galaxy will save every one of us

What appears to be happening is that Samsung is banking on the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 edge, launching starting April 10, to offset the slump in smartphones. So far the reviews for them both are pretty good and it might take back a lot of the ground lost over the last year to Xiaomi.

Each display that will be available as a part of the Spectra View II EA Kit features an AH-IPS LED panel as well as an ergonomic adjustable stand with height, tilt, swivel and pivot adjustments, which makes it suitable for aforementioned target audience as well as professional users.

The new three Spectra View II EA Kits, the EA244UHD-BKSV, EA274WMi-BKSV and the EA304WMi-BKSV, will be backed by a 3-year limited warranty and have an MSRP of US $1,499, $949 and $1,749, respectively. The SVII-EA-KIT, which includes SpectraView software and Spyder calibration sensor, will also be available for purchase with a price set at US $199.

There has been a lot of talk regarding flexible screens and what they could bring to the smartphone and wearable tech industry. According to Korean etnews.com site, it appears that first mass produced flexible displays from both Samsung and LG are expected to ship sometime in November.

This could mean that we might even see some first devices featuring flexible display even before the end of this year and becoming even more affordable and popular as both LG and Samsung ramp up the production. While they are still capable of bending in a single plane, the new type of screens are lighter, thinner and most importantly, unbreakable, which allows manufacturers to pair it up with better specs.

According to details from the report, Samsung currently has a capacity to produce around 1.5 million 5 to 6-inch flexible screens per month, in best case scenario while LG has even lower capacity so we are sure that will not see a flood of those devices before the next year.

During a reqular earnings call, Sharp's president Takashi Okuda revealed that iPhone 5 display is finished and shipments will roll out this month. Sharp is one of the three suppliers of new screens for Apple and this statement from Sharp will certainly add more fire to the earlier September 12th announcement rumor.

In addition to Sharp, LG and Japan Display Inc. are companies that behind a new panel that, according to rumors, should end up to be 4-inch in size and quite thinner due to the use of so-called in-cell panels that integrate touch sensors in the actual LCD rather than in a separate layer.

If all goes well, Apple might truly announce the new iPhone 5 at the rumored September 12th event, and September 21st has popped up as a rumored street release date.

Of course, these are still rumors, and most importantly, these are Apple related rumors so a teaspoon of salt is more than recommended.

Hot on the heels of the announcement of its new toy, Surface, Microsoft has bought manufacturer of large touch displays Perceptive Pixel.

Microsoft did not say much of the terms of the acquisition. However, the company said that the purchase should offer up new possibilities for its vendor partners. Namely, Microsoft’s president of the office division Kurt DelBene has revealed that the large touch displays will be combined with OEM hardware to make “powerful Windows 8-based PCS”.

Naturally, with the announcement of Surface, the time is ripe to get the rumor mill up and running, and quite rightfully so. Despite what Microsoft would have the public think, announcing Surface and buying a large touch display maker afterwards suggests we may see a mega-Surface or something along those lines.

Seeing as how Microsoft primarily focused on software solutions, the purchase will definitely make its job easier, at least on the touch panel front. The deal is pending regulatory approval.